Adriano Espaillat

Adriano Espaillat (27 September 1954-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-NY 13) from 3 January 2017, succeeding Charles Rangel.

Biography
Adriano Espaillat was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic in 1954, the great-grandson of President Ulises Espaillat. His family later emigrated to the United States, and he worked as a conflict resolution mediator, as Director of the Washington Heights Victims Services Community Office, served in the New York State Assembly from 1997 to 2010, in the State Senate from 2011 to 2016, and in the US House of Representatives from 2017. He represented Inwood, Washington Heights, Harlem, and the Upper West Side in Manhattan, and he was a member of the Progressive Democrats.